Jose Graziano da Silva, the director-general of the Food and Agriculture Organization for the United Nations, wrote in a recent op-ed for the Financial Times that "the US must take biofuel action to prevent a food crisis...an immediate, temporary suspension of [the Renewable Fuel Standard] mandate would give some respite to the market and allow more of the crop to be channeled towards food and feed uses." Friends of the Earth will urge the EPA to consider suspending the RFS given the negative consequences of biofuel production on the environment as well.